Another first! Here we have the beginning of Charlie Brown's long and troubled career as a kite flyer.
What, precisely, is the context behind "gangway?" I've heard it before, but what is its origins?
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Sunday, April 13, 1952: Gangway!
Another first! Here we have the beginning of Charlie Brown's long and troubled career as a kite flyer.
What, precisely, is the context behind "gangway?" I've heard it before, but what is its origins?
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Gangway was the passageway in and out of a theatre, and also another word for gangplank. Gang was a word for corridor or passage in Old English. Shouting it out essentially is a request for people to make way for you to either exit or entrance.
ReplyDeleteBefore theaters it was a word for a temporary bridge between two ships.
ReplyDeleteSome history of 'gang'/passageway: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=gangway
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